A Hell of a Play: Glass Horse Project seeks the nontraditional
It’s opening night at Glass Horse Project in New Bedford. I’ve read up on Sarah Ruhl’s play based on the Greek myth — Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus, who […]
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September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
People Are Strange: Wilbury’s Prudencia Hart is wonderfully eccentric
There’s Scottish music, wild drunken karaoke antics and Hell. If there was a word to describe Prudencia Hart’s undoing, “strange” is it. After years of waiting for the performance rights, […]
Admission Is Free, but Guilt Costs Everything: The Gamm delivers another biting look at who we think we are
A close friend of mine who was once head of admissions for an elite prep school in Massachusetts would often tell the story of the moment he decided that his […]
Funda Fest 22 Schedule of Events
Funda Fest returns this month. For full coverage, go to motifri.com/funda2020 The schedule of events follows. Jan 20: Providence Children’s Museum: MLK Amazing Grace, 100 South St, PVD. Free! 11:30am, […]
Powerful and Thought-Provoking Parade Is Must-See Theater
Parade is an ironically cheery title for a musical that is unapologetically dark. Based on a true and pivotal event in American legal, social and political history, Parade dramatizes the […]
Epic’s Suddenly Last Summer Is a Stand-Out Performance
Suddenly Last Summer began its off-Broadway run in 1958, and was adapted into a movie one year later. Sixty-two years after its initial release, this Tennessee Williams one-act is still […]
A Story to Tell: Funda Fest celebrates storytelling in its 22nd year
Funda Fest, the annual celebration of black storytelling presented by Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS), will take place throughout the state from January 25 through February 2. The Festival is […]
Magic, Music and Merriment: Wilbury kicks the year off with a Rhody premiere
Scottish border ballads, rhyming couplets and site-specific performances at local bars make Wilbury’s The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart seem more like an offering better suited for the annual FringePVD […]
The Puppet that Tested and Reaffirmed My Faith in Humanity: A review of Burbage’s Hand to God
Though the play involves hand puppets, Robert Ashkin’s Hand to God explores issues like sexual repression, sexual deviance, violence, alcoholism, compulsive overeating and death; and, therefore, is NOT meant for […]
Fade: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
Fade is a play you really, really want to like. It has characters you rarely get to see onstage, a playwright with an interesting perspective, and an environment that seems […]